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Aging, Illness and Samsara

As long as you don’t realize there is no aging in realityThe suffering of aging is inconceivably hardIf, when you’re old, you don’t remember there’s a Dharma so upliftingThat’s karmic actions from before, just catching up with you

As long as you don’t realize there is no illness in realityThe suffering of illness is inconceivably hardAnd since you never know when some illness just might come and strike you downThe thing to do is practice Dharma; that is what will heal the pain

The nature of samsara is not based anywhereYou look at it, but what you find is, you cannot find itIf realized, surprise, surprise, it turns out it's nirvanaThe nature of everything is the emptinessYogis and yoginis never try to cling to this